Obvious Things You 0nly Just Realised - 2020

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A kidney dish is not so named because that's what you're expected to put in it.

In real life it is actually a kidney bean dish.  For the serving of one kidney bean.

[JesusAndYourBush]

The band Mungo Jerry (who I know essentially nothing about apart from their name) are named not after a band member called Jerry, but after the cat Mungojerrie in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. I know the musical based on the poems well, but I've never made the connection before.

Likewise, it was only a few years ago that I discovered that the name Bombalurina that Timmy Mallett used to release his song Itsy Witsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (Ah yeah!) was also the name of one of the cats.

[olliebean]

In the Summertime is allegedly the third biggest selling single of all time, behind White Christmas and the 1997 version of Candle in the Wind.

Bloody hell, did you just today listen to the same crappy Paul Sinha radio show that I just listened to today even though it was on months ago?

[touchingcloth]

Gnarles Barkley is a pun on Charles Barkley.

I read this not knowing who Gnarles or Charles Barkley are, and I thought to myself "surely it would be a pun on that Niles Barkley chap what had a hit with Crazy". And then I googled.

[touchingcloth]

Rumpleteazer from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is named after Rumpelstiltskin and Malteasers.

And there's a bonus Obvious Thing. Maltesers like the Falcon (I assume), and not Malteasers because they're malty things that tease you, though I'm sure the ambiguity did cross their minds lmao!

[olliebean]

Pretty sure Maltesers are so-named because they've got barley malt extract in them. Why would they be named after a country they have absolutely no connection with?

[touchingcloth]

Either way it's confusing. It's either called Maltese despite having no connection to Malta, or has the ending "teser" despite that not being a real word. Delicious though, om nom teser.

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I've just worked out that "Maltesers" is an anagram of "smelt arse".  It might be my best discovery ever.

[Cerys]

It's 'Malteasers'.  I found this out after far too many years.

Rumpleteazer from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is named after Rumpelstiltskin and Malteasers.

And there's a bonus Obvious Thing. Maltesers like the Falcon (I assume), and not Malteasers because they're malty things that tease you, though I'm sure the ambiguity did cross their minds lmao!

It's actually a reconstruction of the phrase 'teazelrumper', as the feline in question was named after its habit of sexually assaulting the local shrubberies.

[Bobtoo]

Bloody hell, did you just today listen to the same crappy Paul Sinha radio show that I just listened to today even though it was on months ago?

I listened to it when it was first on. I don't remember much else from it but that stuck in my mind.

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I've just worked out that "Maltesers" is an anagram of "smelt arse".  It might be my best discovery ever.

I can't believe that nobody else is bowled over by this.  It's incredible news.

[DrGreggles]

Agreed. That should have 'Fuck My Hat' status at a minimum!

[Jerzy Bondov]

A big bag of Maltesers should be called a Malty Pack

[olliebean]

It's 'Malteasers'.  I found this out after far too many years.

Really? Explain this then, wise guy:

[dissolute ocelot]

Maltesers were created by the American Forrest Mars Sr. in England in 1936, and first sold in 1937. They were originally described as "energy balls" and aimed at slimming women.

From Wikipedia. They also have different ingredients in different countries because Canadians can't get enough ammonium salt of phosphorylated glyceride.

[touchingcloth]

Maltesers Teasers are shite. Chocolate for idiots.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Is that just Malteser crap in the new mould that fucked up Aero's?

[Sebastian Cobb]

A big bag of Maltesers should be called a Malty Pack

The German supermarkets call their version of Shreddies Malt Wheaties.

Had some for the first time in about 20 years this morning. I've been missing out.

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Agreed. That should have 'Fuck My Hat' status at a minimum!

I have now hubristically shared it in that thread to see whether it fucks anyone else's hat.

[buzby]

Is that just Malteser crap in the new mould that fucked up Aero's?

Aero is a Nestle product, not Mars-Wrigley. The Teaser is a bar with crushed-up Malteser cinder toffee in it:

The moulds are a similar shape, but the seqments on the Teaser are more globular that in the mould used for Aero:

[Johnboy]

There are Go Down and Go Up buttons on CAB thread pages. Fancy that.

[Cerys]

Really? Explain this then, wise guy:

Argh!  Mandela!

[phantom_power]

Argh!  Mandela!

The Special AKA etc. etc. etc.

[kittens]

the name of the pokemon 'ponyta' is probably a play on the word 'bonita'

[NoSleep]

Probably just chopped-down "ponytail", given the Japanese love of chopping english words into little bits. Immediately there's pokemon, which is chopped-down "pocket" and "monster". I only found out a week ago that Sega (first used in 1954) is chopped-down English for Service Games, the name of the company until 1960.

[gib]

Today i learned that 'dub' is just a shortened version of 'double'. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dub

[touchingcloth]

Probably just chopped-down "ponytail", given the Japanese love of chopping english words into little bits. Immediately there's pokemon, which is chopped-down "pocket" and "monster". I only found out a week ago that Sega (first used in 1954) is chopped-down English for Service Games, the name of the company until 1960.

False. Sega didn't exist until 1984 when Shen Mue was launched on the Neo Geo Mega-CD.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I was watching the film Clockers recently and got quite excited that the kid in it was constantly wearing bits of Sega promotional props from their ill-fated Sega VR system.

[lazyhour]

The film title "Beavis & Butt-Head Do America" is a play on "Debbie Does Dallas"!!!

[NoSleep]

Shen Mue

Shenanigan Muesli in full.